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by needusername 4211 days ago
One-off modifications, because development, qa and production schemas don't have to be in sync.
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It's possible to run a query to modify the contents of a database without changing the schema. You may already be familiar with the UPDATE statement, for instance.

And not every database in existence is part of a larger stack. I don't care much about automating a task I'll only do once in a throwaway DB that exists only on my computer.